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"Decent" Jokes

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	*“4th edition - bad enough to kill Gary Gygax.”		*“4th edition - bad enough to kill Gary Gygax.”
	*"He will be critically missed"		*"He will be critically missed"
			*[https://xkcd.com/393/ This.]

	===Terrible Jokes===		===Terrible Jokes===

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Gary Gygax

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	Gygax moved on to other projects. He developed two more games, [[Dangerous Journeys]] and [[Lejendary Adventures]], and wrote a series of fantasy novels. He also remained involved with [[Gen Con]], the gaming convention he had started in 1968 and which last year attracted 26,000 devotees. In 2000 he appeared, alongside Al Gore, in a episode of [[Futurama: Now With Dice\|Futurama]]. He worked consistently until health problems began two years ago, commenting in 2005: “What money I made I gave to charities and needy attorneys, the IRS and my ex-wife.”		Gygax moved on to other projects. He developed two more games, [[Dangerous Journeys]] and [[Lejendary Adventures]], and wrote a series of fantasy novels. He also remained involved with [[Gen Con]], the gaming convention he had started in 1968 and which last year attracted 26,000 devotees. In 2000 he appeared, alongside Al Gore, in a episode of [[Futurama: Now With Dice\|Futurama]]. He worked consistently until health problems began two years ago, commenting in 2005: “What money I made I gave to charities and needy attorneys, the IRS and my ex-wife.”

	Although D&D struggled as computer games chipped away at role-playing’s fanbase, it proved a huge influence on the emerging gaming industry, and generations of hugely popular games like Everquest, Halo and World of Warcraft owe a debt to Gygax’s original. Even though he never made one himself, Gygax was named 17th most influential person in computer game history by Gamespy.com. In their book of the rise of the computer game, Dungeons & Dreamers, John Borland and Brad King credit Gygax as an inspiration: “Scratch almost any game developer who worked from the late 1970s until today and you’re likely to find a vein of role-playing experience.” '''(What the blue fuck does Halo have to do with D&D?)'''		Although D&D struggled as computer games chipped away at role-playing’s fanbase, it proved a huge influence on the emerging gaming industry, and generations of hugely popular games like Everquest, Halo and World of Warcraft owe a debt to Gygax’s original. Even though he never made one himself, Gygax was named 17th most influential person in computer game history by Gamespy.com. In their book of the rise of the computer game, Dungeons & Dreamers, John Borland and Brad King credit Gygax as an inspiration: “Scratch almost any game developer who worked from the late 1970s until today and you’re likely to find a vein of role-playing experience.” '''(What the blue fuck does Halo have to do with D&D?[It was developed by a bunch of nerds who wanted to tell a story about a human fighter fucking up aliens.)'''

	Gygax himself though, was no fan of online gaming, which he said destroyed the social bonding of D&D. “The game offers camaraderie, imagination, socialisation,” he said in 2005. “Computer games can be so isolating. They’re not anything like sitting in a group and laughing, telling stories. You can’t share a bag of Cheetos online.”		Gygax himself though, was no fan of online gaming, which he said destroyed the social bonding of D&D. “The game offers camaraderie, imagination, socialisation,” he said in 2005. “Computer games can be so isolating. They’re not anything like sitting in a group and laughing, telling stories. You can’t share a bag of Cheetos online.”

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Terrible Jokes

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	*“[[Lorraine Williams]] is behind this somehow, I just know it.”		*“[[Lorraine Williams]] is behind this somehow, I just know it.”
	*“Is there anything in the will about electrum?”		*“Is there anything in the will about electrum?”
	*“Heart condition? Wow, I always thought it’d be owlbears that got him.”		*“Heart condition? Wow, I always thought it’d be [[owlbear\|owlbears]] that got him.”

	===Jokes that are so bad, they're good.===		===Jokes that are so bad, they're good.===

1d4chan>Raton-Laveur: /* Gygax & Humanity */

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Gygax & Humanity

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	Secondly, this is why every "classic" D&D campaign setting has a human-dominated world. Whether you look at [[Greyhawk]], the [[Forgotten Realms]], [[Mystara]], [[Birthright]] or [[Dragonlance]], you've got a world where the known lands are divided into distinctive realms, and where those realms are largely dominated by humans. Whilst this can be arguably tied into their origins as a neo-Medieval wargame, the fact of the matter is that classic D&D settings always presume that humans run the world - this is why humans come in many different cultures, whilst non-humans tend to be more mono-cultural.		Secondly, this is why every "classic" D&D campaign setting has a human-dominated world. Whether you look at [[Greyhawk]], the [[Forgotten Realms]], [[Mystara]], [[Birthright]] or [[Dragonlance]], you've got a world where the known lands are divided into distinctive realms, and where those realms are largely dominated by humans. Whilst this can be arguably tied into their origins as a neo-Medieval wargame, the fact of the matter is that classic D&D settings always presume that humans run the world - this is why humans come in many different cultures, whilst non-humans tend to be more mono-cultural.

	But, this trait has lessened as the years have gone by without Gygax at the helm. [[Eberron]] really shook things up, even going so far as to have [[Droaam]], whilst "Worlds & Monsters", a designer's teaser book for [[Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition]], outright features a segment on page 24 titles "The End of Human Dominion", emphasizing that the lack of "human nations" being the norm was intended to make the [[Nentir Vale]] world feel more fantastical. 5e brought the trait back into prominence by striving to push the Forgotten Realms as the default setting, but who can say how the future will turn out?		But, this trait has lessened as the years have gone by without Gygax at the helm. [[Eberron]] really shook things up, even going so far as to have [[Droaam]], whilst "Worlds & Monsters", a designer's teaser book for [[Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition]], outright features a segment on page 24 titles "The End of Human Dominion", emphasizing that the lack of "human nations" being the norm was intended to make the [[Nentir Vale]] world feel more fantastical. [[Dungeons_%26_Dragons_5th_Edition\|5e]] brought the trait back into prominence by striving to push the Forgotten Realms as the default setting, but who can say how the future will turn out?

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Body of Work

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	*Lejendary Adventure (earning him the name Jary Jyjax amongst the extremely geeky)		*Lejendary Adventure (earning him the name Jary Jyjax amongst the extremely geeky)
	*Castles and Crusades (3 out of 7 planned books)		*Castles and Crusades (3 out of 7 planned books)
			*Several novels, particularly the Gord the Rogue series
	*... and some sourcebooks for the OGL d20 system		*... and some sourcebooks for the OGL d20 system

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Body of Work

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	*Little Big Horn		*Little Big Horn
	*[[Advanced Dungeons and Dragons]] (this time without Dave)		*[[Advanced Dungeons and Dragons]] (this time without Dave)
	:AD&D was really his baby, he wrote a shittonne of supplements, splats, expansions, and modules. Highlights include [[Temple of Elemental Evil\|~~The Village of Hommlet/~~The Temple of Elemental Evil]], [[Tomb of Horrors]], and G/D/Q.		:AD&D was really his baby, he wrote a shittonne of supplements, splats, expansions, and modules. Highlights include [[T1: The Village of Hommlet]] / [[Temple of Elemental Evil\|The Temple of Elemental Evil]], [[S1: Tomb of Horrors]], and [[Queen of the Spiders\|G/D/Q]].
	:The World of Greyhawk campaign setting was a codified version of what he would play with his friends and children.		:The World of Greyhawk campaign setting was a codified version of what he would play with his friends and children.
	*Dungeon! (board game)		*Dungeon! (board game)

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Body of Work

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	*Little Big Horn		*Little Big Horn
	*[[Advanced Dungeons and Dragons]] (this time without Dave)		*[[Advanced Dungeons and Dragons]] (this time without Dave)
	:AD&D was really his baby, he wrote a shittonne of supplements, splats, expansions, and modules. Highlights include [[The Village of Hommlet]]/[[The Temple of Elemental Evil]], [[Tomb of Horrors]], and G/D/Q.		:AD&D was really his baby, he wrote a shittonne of supplements, splats, expansions, and modules. Highlights include [[Temple of Elemental Evil\|The Village of Hommlet/The Temple of Elemental Evil]], [[Tomb of Horrors]], and G/D/Q.
	:The World of Greyhawk campaign setting was a codified version of what he would play with his friends and children.		:The World of Greyhawk campaign setting was a codified version of what he would play with his friends and children.
	*Dungeon! (board game)		*Dungeon! (board game)